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LNJ029 - Rusty Russell Talks Offers/Superinvoices

Lightning Junkies

English - May 20, 2020 12:00 - 54 minutes - 43.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
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This is the 29th episode of the Lightning Junkies podcast. In this episode we have Rusty Russell! Rusty is well known for his work at Blockstream on C-Lightning. Prior to Lightning he was a Linux kernel dev. Rusty authored the majority of the Lightning Protocol Specification and has been directly responsible for much of the breakthroughs on Lightning while at Blockstream.


We talk about:

Rusty’s background
Rusty’s lack of ability to predict the future
Linux development
Teamwork in the Lightning Network
Different Lightning Development team
Offers/SuperInvoices
Recurring payments on the Lightning Network
Spongebob
The problem with LN/Scaling
Shitcoins
Ways to contribute to LN

Rusty’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rusty_twit

Rusty’s GitHub: https://github.com/rustyrussell


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